moritherapy/women

August 2008, Special Issue of Women Writers. Special Issue: Serving The Spirits: Women & Voodoo in Literature and Popular Culture

100 Canadians to Watch. This one is a young publisher of a magazine for 13-15-year old girls.

A moving story about a strong South African woman who has overcome domestic violence and is living with a disability.

Mary Anne Shadd, woman publisher in the 1850s. And black. From the page: "During the 1850s, Mary was one of the most outspoken anti-slavery activist in the region. She felt strongly that "caste" or segregated institutions were inappropriate in a free country and only contributed to racial discrimination. Mary believed that integration was the surest route to "race improvement" of Canadian blacks. To promote these views, Mary helped found the Provincial Freeman, a weekly newspaper for the black community of Upper Canada that began publication in 1853. Although listed on the masthead as "M.A. Shadd, Publishing Agent," in reality Mary was the editor of the paper.

In 1854 Mary decided to correct the "misapprehension" that M.A. Shadd was a man. "It was," she wrote,"a mistake occasioned, no doubt, by the habit we have of using initials. We would simply correct, for the future, our error, by giving here the name in full (Mary A. Shadd) as we do not like the Mr. and Esq., by which we are so often addressed."

This revelation unleashed a wave of "sex discrimination" that threatened to close the Provincial Freeman. Mary urged readers not to abandon their support of the paper simply because "it had editors of the unfortunate sex."

From the page: "13-year old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was stoned to death in Somalia by insurgents because she was raped.

Reports indicate that was raped by three men while traveling by foot to visit her grandmother in conflict capital, Mogadishu. When she went to the authorities to report the crime, they accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death. Aisha was forced into a hole in a stadium of 1,000 onlookers as 50 men buried her up to the neck and cast stones at her until she died. "

India has the highest maternal death rate in the world (i.e. women who die in pregnancy or childbirth)

Former Alaskan Governor Knowles "broke new ground while answering a reporter's question on whether Wasilla forced rape victims to pay for their own forensic tests when Palin was mayor.
True, Knowles said."